Whois & Analysis for bigstockphoto.com

Bigstock is an online royalty free, international microstock photography website that sells images via a credit-based system.

Bigstock's photos, vectors and illustrations cost from between 1 and 6 credits each, depending on size, with credits ranging from $.90 to $3.00 USD.

Stock photography is the supply of photographs, which are often licensed for specific uses.

The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, and microstock photography.

Conventional stock agencies charge from several hundred to several thousand American dollars per image, while microstock photography may sell for around USD 25 cents.

Professional stock photographers traditionally place their images with one or more stock agencies on a contractual basis, while stock agencies may accept the high-quality photos of amateur photographers through online submission.

Royalty-free, or RF, refers to the right to use copyright material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales.

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures, and file footage is film or video footage that can be used again in other films.

Stock footage is beneficial to filmmakers as it saves shooting new material.

A single piece of stock footage is called a "stock shot" or a "library shot".

Stock footage may have appeared in previous productions but may also be outtakes or footage shot for previous productions and not used.

Examples of stock footage which might be utilized are moving images of cities and landmarks, wildlife in their natural environments, and historical footage.

Suppliers of stock footage may be either Rights Managed or royalty-free.

Many websites offer direct downloads of clips in various formats.

Vector graphics is the use of polygons to represent images in computer graphics.

Vector graphics are based on vectors, which lead through locations called control points or nodes.

Each of these points has a definite position on the x- and y-axes of the work plane and determines the direction of the path; further, each path may be assigned various attributes, including such values as stroke color, shape, curve, thickness, and fill.